Word: plump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taylor's history, The Taste of Angels (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $10), turned out to be as stately, plump, and full of incidental intelligence as the man himself...
...third-floor room at the Russian consulate, Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina nervously snapped off the mid-afternoon news broadcast. She walked to one of the windows overlooking the courtyard below, and wrenched it open. She stood there a moment-a plump, distraught, middle-aged woman in a ruffled blue dress...
...Pump Room Orchestra, organized balls and assemblies in a stately new hall, laid down and enforced a code of manners (sword-wearing and smoking in front of ladies were banned), ordered all the old ladies to sit in the back rows and all the shyest maidens to dance. The plump, dandiacal "King of Bath," whose crown was an enormous cream-colored beaver hat, ruled society like an autocrat.* Graceful new Georgian buildings transformed Bath into the handsomest of English towns...
...later, the Russian consulate in New York invited newspapers to send men to an unprecedented press conference. As soon as reporters walked in, it was plain who had gotten Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina. She was in custody of Jacob M. Lomakin, the handsome, blackhaired Soviet consul general. She was a plump, nervous-looking, middle-aged woman who wore a floppy-sleeved blouse, a black skirt, turquoise-colored bobbysocks, and red shoes. Lomakin announced, happily, that she had endured a rare ordeal and that she was about to describe it-through an interpreter, of course...
...plump gentleman in a black Homburg strode through the afternoon idlers in St. James's Park to the lake. Two wires were taped inconspicuously to the package in his arms; it had a harsh, germicidal smell...